The World - News from Dec. 19, 1986

Philippine President Corazon Aquino’s chief cease-fire negotiator admitted that some military accounts of alleged Communist guerrilla violations of a week-old truce were wrong. A report of an attack Monday by 100 Communists on an army outpost was initially believed to be the first violation of the truce, but government negotiator Teofisto Guingon said a subsequent report reduced the number of attackers to 30 and described them as “bandit NPAs,” casting doubt on their membership in the rebel New People’s Army.